Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. Businesses are continuing to streamline their purchasing. Processing and remitting payments.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. We’re a cloud content management platform.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Integrations? How does the provider protect against payment fraud?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Powered by a modern business messenger , it scales your ability to answer more questions from more customers without increasing headcount, budget, or hours logged. Future-proofing your support tech stack to meet both business objectives and the needs of modern customers starts with laying the right foundations. Team Inbox.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. There are two popular brands used in the CRM and customer service space – Zendesk vs Freshdesk. It equips the sales, marketing, and customer service teams with the necessary tools. Freshdesk is suited for small businesses that want a basic CRM.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Second, selling on a wider range of marketplaces gets your products in front of a larger audience. We already touched on one of the main reasons to seek other venues: the perils of depending on one sales platform. If you haven’t already established yourself on one of the alternatives to Amazon, your business could tank.

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BitPay

MAY 25, 2023

A growing number of businesses have begun accepting cryptocurrency payments to meet the demands of their crypto-using customers. Fortunately, today it’s easier than ever for B2B businesses to start taking cryptocurrency in exchange for their goods and services, with no crypto knowledge required and no complicated integrations.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. How Messente scaled with no funding. What Is Messente?

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With that in mind, we’re going to detail captive pricing below, with an eye towards how it also plays a part in SaaS platforms and products. One example of this would be tax preparation software platforms that can enable one person to prepare federal taxes for the current year, but require modules for things like custom reports.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With that in mind, we’re going to detail captive pricing below, with an eye towards how it also plays a part in SaaS platforms and products. One example of this would be tax preparation software platforms that can enable one person to prepare federal taxes for the current year, but require modules for things like custom reports.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. What is B2B Ecommerce?

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Yeah, great.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . The following 4 metrics are critical to the valuation of a private SaaS business.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. As John Durrett, General Manager of Payments for Storable, recently explained in a sit down with Payrix, Storable wants to make payments “invisible” for its customers.

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

As long as you find a platform that looks professional and handles the billing and analytics properly, you’ll be in good shape, right? They pick the platform that will work for their needs now — and the one that makes the smallest dent in their budget. It pays to make the right choice of billing platform from the start.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

See what the top 10 platforms you should be looking at in 2021 are to make an informed decision for your business needs. Additionally, unlike small CRMs, enterprise CRM platforms are usually able to connect with many other tools. Lastly, an enterprise CRM platform is able to support more than just the sales organization.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. OpenView has been tracking growth rates by ARR scale for four years running. Explore Untapped Revenue Streams. These can be lucrative, too.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2019

Readily accessible staff — Having a dedicated team to maintain your ecommerce platform means that your company can troubleshoot issues as they arise. If something awry happens, your business has the opportunity to correct the problem internally without having to worry about time-zones or remote workers. The Cons of In-house Ecommerce.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. They Launched With a Platform, Not a Product Another big advantage?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. EJ Brown 00:31 That was Ryan Austin, the founder and CEO of Cognota, the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Are you looking for a hiring system that lets you integrate email campaigns, pre-screenings, or specific candidate analytics? Is testing a big part of your hiring process? Make a list of the features your business can’t compromise on, and use those as a filter for narrowing your best options. Specific Features. Hiring Frequency.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. All of the cool ideas that you had, you would get really clear feedback about what was going on, but if it was a good idea, it would really move the needle in revenue and volume. Uber is a classic marketplace company.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely. As they move further down your sales funnel and process, these preferences grow. The future of this space is digital and streamlined.

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Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Accepting payments is the most important functionality that a business needs to start selling. But to accept payments seamlessly and securely, you need a merchant account. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It documents the business your product is building, y et it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight.” ” It’s natural to go to payments per user or even user logins, but they rarely indicate user engagement. Now, for each segment, isolate its revenue and COGS.

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